| ID | 133109 |
| Title Proper | Global food crisis and the geopolitics of food security |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sommerville, Melanie ; Essex, Jamey ; Billon, Philippe Le |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Growing anxieties over food security have recently brought sharp geopolitical overtones to debates about the agro-food sector. Contending that this 'geopolitical moment' highlights the mutually constitutive nature of geopolitics and political economies of food, we examine how dominant geopolitical framings of food security extend and deepen neoliberal models of agro-food provisioning, and highlight the need for further attention to these dynamics from political geographers. We develop a preliminary research agenda for further work in the field, focusing on the recent spate of global farmland acquisitions, questions of agro-food governance, the securitisation of hunger and obesity, and the environmental impacts of dominant agro-food systems. Throughout, we highlight the value of a counter-geopolitics of food security for re-situating agro-food politics outside hegemonic policies and institutions, and of the alter-geopolitics of food pursued by communities embodying concrete alternative food production and consumption systems. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.239-265 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.239-265 |
| Key Words | Food Politics ; Pubic Protest ; Global Food Crisis ; National Political Agenda - NPA ; Transnational Political Agenda - TNPA ; Global Governance ; Geopolitical Strategy ; Political Disorder ; Economic Disorder ; Food Security ; Food Insecurity ; Geopolitical Framings ; Production Systems ; Consumption Systems ; Hegemonic Policies ; Counter-Geopolitics ; Global Farmland Acquisitions - GFA ; Environmental Impacts ; Alter-Geopolitics |